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Our Morning Offering – 21 July – The Memorial of St Lawrence of Brindisi OFM Cap (1559-1619) Doctor of the Church – Today’s Readings:  Micah 2:1-5, Psalm 10:1-4, 7-8, 14, Matthew 12:14-21

“Woe to those who devise wickedness and work evil upon their beds!”…Micah 2:1

The Peace Prayer

By St Francis of Assisi (c 1181-1226)

Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace, 
where there is hatred, let me sow love,
where there is injury, pardon,
where there is doubt, faith, 
where there is despair, hope,
where there is darkness, light 
and where there is sadness, joy.
O Divine Master, 
grant that I may not so much 
seek to be consoled as to console,
to be understood as to understand,
to be loved as to love,
for it is in giving that we receive, 
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

St Francis of Assisi (1181/82-1226)